Improvement in burning hydrocarbons and bagasse



E. S. ROMAN.

Improvement in Burning Hydrocarbons and Bagassef No. l25989, PatentedAprl23,l872.

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'EUPHMON S. ROMAN, OF GANTRELLE, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BURNING HVDROCARBONS AND BAGASSE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,989, dated April 23, 1872.

Specification describing a new and useful Improvement in BurningHydrocarbons alone, or in combination .with other fuel; invented by EUPHEMON S. ROMAN, of Cantrelle, in the parish of St. James and State of Louisiana.

My invention consists of a combination of hydrocarbons, with bagasse,V as it comes from sugar-mill, and is fed tothe furnace to facilitate the utilization of the bagasse for fuel without dryjng'it. My invention also consists of a combination of hydrocarbon of every kindwith any other fuel, or the use pf hydrocarbons alone as fuel, the same beingburnedina pan having a safety-attachment, of the character shown in the Davy Safety-Lamp improvement.

Figure l is partly a side elevation and partly a sectional elevation of one arrangement of apparatus by which the hydrocarbon may be combined with the crushed cane as it is delivered from the cane-mill, a-nd directly supplied to the furnace, the use of the hydrocarbon with the bag-asse rendering the latter immediately available, whereas, without the oil, the bagasse has to stand over to the next season to dry before it can be made available. Fig. 2 is partly a sectional elevation and partly a longitudinal section of apparatus that may be used for burning the hydrocarbons alone, the section being taken on the line w x of Fig.v 3 5 and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line y y of Fig. 2.

As the bagasse is too wet to be used for fuel when it comes from the cane-crushin g mills, it is either stored away at great expense for labor and sheds to protect it from the rain to dry until the next season after it is made, or it is entirely wasted, and other fuel used for driving the machinery and evapcrating the juice, although it possesses sufficient combustible substance to furnish all the heat required for driving the machinery to crush it, and for evaporatin g the juice. Now, I have discovered that, by mixing hydrocarbons of anykind with it, as it comes from the mill, it may be immediately utilized for fuel with great economy by being fed directly into the furnace, and, in like manner, any other fuel, wet or dry, being combined with the said hydrocarbons, will give better results for generating steam and the like for a given cost or material; also, the said hydrocarbons may be successfully and ecomomically burned alone with properly con' structed apparatus. I therefore propose to mix oil, or any hydrocarbon, with the bagasse,

and conduct the compound' directly to the furnace, as the bagasse comes from the crushingmill A, say, by a spout, C, passages D, and feed-rollers E,'0r any other suitable apparatus, using an oil-tank or fountain, F, of any kind, a conducting-pipe, Gr, and sprinkler, H, for applying the oil,the said fountain beingplaced .higher than the sprinkler to let the oil low by gravity, and the sprinkler being arranged directly above the conductor for the bagasse, or the oil may be forced through the sprinkler by a pump. I propose, however, to avail myself ofan y other suitable arrangement of apparatus for mixing the oil with the bagasse, also to mix it with any other fuel, whether in-its passage to the furnace, or before, or afterwards.

And -I propose to use hydrocarbons alone for..

fuel, and for burning them I propose to use an oil-tight pan or furnace-bottom, K, with devices of any kind, say, narrow tubes and a force-pump, or the natural pressure, by which it may be distributed into a number of small compartments around the boiler or kettle, surrounded by a jacket of metal, from which reservoirs the heating process takes place in form of a fiery rain or spray, enveloping the boilers or kettle with dame, creating the most intense heat, and thereby econolnising largely. The pan or furnacev holding the oil will be protected or surrounded, in whole or in part, by a safety wire-guard or finely perforated picket, L.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination of hydrocarbons with bagasse, as it comes from the crusher and is fed into the furnace, substantially in the manner described.

2. The employment of hydrocarbons, either alone or in combination with bagasse or other fuel, substantially in the manner described.

3. The combination of aba gasse conductor and a-n oil-holder and sprinkler with a crusning-mill, A, and a furnace, B, substantially in the manner described. n

EUIHEMON S. ROMAN.

W'itnesses:

' A. J. ARMSTRONG,

E. J. (ELEMENTS. 

